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Tuesday, 8 April 2014

NaPoWriMo 2014 Day Eight

And now for today’s
(optional, as always!) prompt. Today, let’s rewrite a famous poem, giving it
our own spin. While any famous poem will do, if you haven’t already got one in
mind, why not try your own version of Cesar Vallejo’sBlack Stone Lying on a White Stone? If you’re not exactly sure how such a poem could
be “re-written,” check outthis recent poem by Stephen Burt, which riffs on Vallejo’s.
Happy writing!

I really have to say that I have read some of your poems and I am quite impressed! It really does take such effort to do what you are doing--honing your poetry skills. I especially like what you did with Shakespeare's sonnet. You made it your own in a unique way. I feel like you still stayed true to the poems form and to Shakespeare in general. I enjoy your imagery like in the line "But our eternal summer’s still to come" and especially in your first two lines. I really get the sense of what/ how you feel, "On the eighth day god created Manchester/More lovely than any place he made." You do an excellent job at SHOWING how you feel verses telling me. This is really great work.

SweetTalkingGuy...

“Inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible.” Oscar Wilde from The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter four.

Acrostic FlameThrowerPoetry - Extra Special You

My Acrostic poem with 36 different anagrams of the acrostic word. The Acrostic word was Constantinople, I then shuffled up the letters and made anagrams like: Platonic Sonnet and Non Poetic Slant. You can read the complete 37 versions of this poem HERE